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Meet the staff of the Boileau Clinic
Altenord Nixon, M.D Born in Les Cayes, Haiti, January 18, 1974. He studied in the Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Sante de l’Université Lumière in Port au Prince, Haiti and graduated with his degree in Medicine in 2004. He was the part time medical…
Read MoreCentre Materno et Infantil de Boileau Operational!
On February 4, 2013 NOVA Hope for Haïti commenced operating the Centre Materno et Infantil de Boileau in conjunction with the Haitian Pilgrims of Lewisville, TX. As the name implies, although open to the population at large CMIB is creating programs that will address women of child bearing age, pregnant women and new born infants…
Read MoreNOVA’s Mobile medical team: The road to Flammand
It has long been a goal of NOVA to break out of our central clinic in Cavaillon and to take medical teams to more remote villages in the surrounding areas to try to help people who are sick and cannot make it to the town to come to our clinic. It would seem like a…
Read MoreNOVA patient: Joseph Robes
Joseph Robes was 7 years old when he came to NOVA’s clinic in May 2012. His condition was serious. He was extremely ill, malnourished and his mother feared that he was dying. Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Sarah Wren was primarily responsible for his care, but she included the entire pediatric team of the 2012 mission to help…
Read MoreNOVA’s 15th Medical Mission a great success!
On January 26th 28 volunteers departed from JFK airport in New York to fly to Haiti for NOVA’s 15th medical mission. The team from New York and New Jersey met 6 other volunteers from Florida, Texas and Haiti at the Port au Prince airport. With 34 doctors, nurses, translators and volunteers this was the largest…
Read MoreNOVA’s 15th Medical Mission about to head to Haiti
On January 26th to February 3rd NOVA will conduct our 15th Medical Mission in Haiti 2013 will see the largest team NOVA has sent to Haiti to date, with 33 doctors, nurses, translators, and other volunteers going to Cavaillon, Haiti to open a week long emergency care clinic. Things are looking good: our medicine is…
Read MoreNOVA Partners To Open Permanent Medical Facility On January 26, 2013
Boileau, Haïti is a small hamlet situated about 10 Km away from NOVA’s property and the two-story house that is soon to be converted into a NOVA permanent medical facility. In 2001 The Haitian Pilgrim Ministry of the St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Lewisville, TX built and gifted to the Boileau Parish a…
Read MoreHurricane Sandy: a strange solidarity in the wake of a superstorm
NOVA Hope for Haiti wishes to express our sincerest condolences to those who lost loved ones because of Hurricane Sandy and our sympathies to all who continue to suffer because of lost homes, power, heat and property. The huge swath of destruction caused by this historic event has created a strange and unfortunate solidarity between…
Read MoreNOVA Hope for Haiti: Hope for the Children dinner a great success
On Monday, October 22, 2012 NOVA Hope for Haiti inaugurated a campaign to raise $150,000.00 to renovate a house NOVA owns in Cavaillon, Haiti, and transform it into a pediatric clinic. 140 people attended, to support NOVA and to hear about our plans for permanent pediatric care in Cavaillon. The event was help in at…
Read MoreWhy we are building a Pediatric Clinic
NOVA Hope for Haiti has been running medical missions to Haiti for over 10 years. All it takes is for a doctor or nurse to come on one of our medical missions just once and they realize that while we do amazing work, which at times even saves lives, we are not really making a sustained…
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